Observing the 40th Anniversary of the First Human Heart Transplantation in the United States

Event

40th Anniversary Symposium

Friday, Oct. 24, 2008

Looking to the Future

40 Years of Heart and Lung Transplantation at Stanford University

Program:

7:30 a.m. Registration

8:00 a.m. – Noon Symposium

12:15 – 1:30 p.m. Live interview about the first heart and heart-lung transplants with
Edward B. Stinson, M.D.
and Bruce A. Reitz, M.D.

2:00 – 4:00 p.m. Transplant Recipient Testimonials

Video Coverage of the Event

Photo: Dr. Norman Shumway (center) performs the first heart transplant in January, 1968.

Four decades ago, years of research by Dr Norman Shumway and his colleagues culminated in the first successful human heart transplantation in the United States. In the years since that momentous surgery, Dr. Shumway’s team conducted clinical and basic research that have made heart and lung transplantations relatively common procedures, providing decades of life to patients worldwide.